WHERE: free online webinar. After you register you will receive a confirmation email which will include the connection details.

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About the topic: In this TI Best Evidence webinar, Hafeez Dossa will describe his experience with a pharmacist-led intervention in a long-term care setting, which can dramatically reduce the inappropriate use of medications. Bottom line: while making changes that improve or don’t affect patient outcomes, deprescribing can also reduce drug costs, pharmacy dispensing, and nursing workload.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES (by the end of this session, participants will be able to):

• establish patterns of use of potentially inappropriate medication and identify opportunities for deprescribing;
• communicate with other team members a recommendation to continue, adjust, or stop the medication;
• support changes and monitor for benefits, harms, and durability of these changes.

About the speaker: Hafeez Dossa, BSc is a pharmacist, managing a pharmacy that supports ~2,000 patients who live in long term care (LTC) and Assisted Living (AL) facilities across Vancouver Island. He is passionate about optimizing medication management, and spearheaded a deprescribing initiative in 2020 that resulted in safe deprescribing of PPIs in 50% of those taking them. Following that, he completed a 9-month quality improvement intervention for all LTC patients supported by his pharmacy who were taking tramadol.